What seems lame about the gameplay? It seems like pretty standard fps stuff for me, nothing different than what you'd find in halo or some other sci fi fps.
If you mash the buttons you aren't playing the game right. Just from the demo alone I can clearly see that Heavenly sword has better combat than both god of war and ninja gaiden, two games I love. My only problem with heavenly sword is its way too short.
More like still the champ. Its still outselling both the ps3 and 360.
I edited my response b/c I wasn't sure on the length of gears. I know it took me about 8, but I googled it to see the average length so it wouldn't just be my experience w/ the game.
As for those games being filler or whatever, you obviously prefer online multiplayer shooters, but I play those on my pc. For consoles I prefer single player and sports games so for me games like lair, mgs4, heavenly sword, uncharted, etc are the reason I got a ps3, so when they don't live up to t...
Gears was 7-9 hours, which is still short, but its got very good online multiplayer that enhances the replay value.
6 hours for heavenly sword is inexcusable though with the massive amount of hype its gotten. And a full 1.5 hours of that is cutscenes too, add in the shooting missions, and that leaves the game looking pretty sparse on the actual cobat, which from the demo was great and was the best part of the game. Between this and lair I'm pretty disappointed in the ps3 this s...
I'll put bioshock's story up against the story of ANY movie released this summer.
Its a myth that videogames don't have good storytelling. The plots to the best action games stand up well against the plots for most action movies. Yes sometimes the plots get muddled (mgs3 or fear for example) but thats only because games have to sustain the plot over hours and hours of gameplay, while movies only last 2-3 hours at most.
LOL @ "gaming heaven". What an ass. The 360 has had a pretty long dry spell also this summer, but thankfully bioshock is here to break the drought.
Lair was a pretty huge disappointment for me, but I figured warhawk would suck from the start. Nothing about that game ever seemed any good. Guess that just means more time for bioshock and heavenly sword in two weeks.
These pointless "analyst" articles may even be lamer than the never ending "60000% increase on amazon!!" ones.
I'm in the same boat with you, I'm not impressed at all by this game's visuals. All of this season's "big guns" like Bioshock, uncharted, ut2007, heavenly sword and mass effect all look way better. Gears also blows this game away visually and that was a full year and a half ago. Hopefully it will excell in the gameplay department.
Either way it will still sell though, thats a guarantee just because of the name alone. I'll probably pick it up eventually, but there are...
This doesn't surprise me at all. I was never impressed with warhawk. The air battles seemed pretty decent but everything else looked horrible, especially the land vehicles and the individual character models. The way the player characters moved was a joke, like something from the ps1 era.
If the ign editors said the game was "painful repetitive and not very fun" what makes you think these same editors are going to give it a high score once the review actually does come out?
I had hopes for lair too. When I first saw it though it looked like the game was basically amazing visuals + repetitive and boring gameplay, and it looks like thats exactly what Lair is. I'll download the demo whenever it comes out and make up my own mind, but I trust ign more than...
Yea exactly.. some of the posters are talking like a 9 is bad. Thats still a great score, especially from gamespot which has very high standards.
People aren't buying the wii just because of price alone. Its the motion controls, the hype, and the appeal to casual gaming that keep the wii in high demand.
I know, seriously. Bioshock's specs aren't really that big of a deal. Unless you're poor and have a pos pc you should be able to run this fine. We're not talking about crysis here.
Shame that they're crappy second hand vids. Would love to see some direct feed footage of these if they're available.
Not a big delay.. this isn't a huge deal. Can't wait for this game.
lol Are you kidding? First off I own a 360 so pls stfu with the "driod" crap. and there are plenty of cpus under 1500 that could do bioshock. Even a run of the mill 1200 dell could easily run bioshock at about the same level as the 360. Yea you can post the highest specs, but you don't need to run it at highest resolution to have it look near 360 quality, especially with a decent monitor. Bottom line is both pc and 360 gamers can enjoy this game. Sorry if it gets your little fanboy ...
This settings adjustment crap is is lame. Don't you fanboys know that pc games do have optimal settings, which will automatically adjust the game to an output that best suits your pc in seconds? And quit acting like bioshock is crysis or something and you need some super computer with the latest vid cards to run it. Most decent gaming pcs will have no problems running bioshock at or better than the level of the 360. Is it so important to you that only console owners enjoy this game that you'l...
Do you spend weeks adjusting the settings on your lcd tv when you get a new game? No.. that would be just as stupid as saying pc gamers tweak their visual settings for weeks everytime they get a new pc game. Since when was having the OPTION of adjusting the visuals a bad thing?
As for the little 15 inch monitor comment if you think people with pc's good enough to play games like oblivion and bioshock are playing on 15 inch screens you're really showing your ignorance.
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Its a real shame neither the ps3 or 360 can pull this off. The visuals are amazing.